“There is no Sharia Law in Dearborn.”
-- Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly
If the allegations in a sex discrimination lawsuit reported in The Detroit News are true, then a male nurse was fired from a city-funded health clinic for violating Islamic rules against males treating Muslim females:
John Benitez Jr. . . . . worked at the city's taxpayer-funded health clinic. He alleges he was ordered by a female supervisor not to treat conservative Muslim women, specifically those wearing head scarves, according to the lawsuit. He was told the clinic's male Muslim clients did not want a male treating female patients.
He complied until November 2010, when a doctor ordered him to treat Muslim women as he would any other patient, the suit claimed. Benitez followed the doctor's order and was fired less than one month later, according to the lawsuit. (“Male nurse claims he lost job for treating Muslim women in scarves”).
I have not yet seen the lawsuit, so my opinions are conditional upon the allegations proving well founded.
For now, though, having Dawud Walid taking the clinic’s side tends to support Benitez’s version of the story.
“Hospitals and health clinics routinely make accommodations based on religion,” Walid told the News.
“’In general, unless it is for emergency situations, many Muslims would prefer being screened and touched by someone of the same gender,’ Walid said.”
That’s as may be, but a patient requesting accommodation is another matter. This sounds more like a case of clinic management adopting a sexually discriminatory treatment policy in response to the demands of Muslim men – a policy Benitez lost his job for violating.
If taxpayer-funded clinics in Dearborn are adopting discriminatory policies to accommodate Islamic law, then once again Jack O’Reilly’s repeated claims that there is no Sharia in Dearborn is being shown up for the nonsense it is.
1 comment:
For Muslims to insist that public employees follow Muslim guidelines when dealing with them is simply wrong. With a public-service nurse, patients can reasonably expect fair and professional treatment. To demand special treatment because of your religion is 'racism' in itself. (I use the jihadist definition of racism here.) If patients don't want to follow American guidelines in treatment, they can choose to NOT USE the facility. As you say, Mr. Clancy, another obvious case of Sharia Law here in Dearborn.
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